Posted on Sunday, April 26, 2015

Testing Bits – 4/19/15 – 4/25/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 4/19/15 – 4/25/15.

Articles & Blogs

An insight to Innovative Agile or Spiral Software Testing – Software Testing Genius – http://www.softwaretestinggenius.com/an-insight-to-innovative-agile-or-spiral-software-testing
Communication Tips in Software Testing – Laszlo Szegedi – http://www.stickyminds.com/article/communication-tips-software-testing
Developing an approach to responsive design website testing – Mike Talks – http://testsheepnz.blogspot.com/2015/04/developing-approach-to-responsive.html
Difference between load and stress – using a metaphor – Will Yates – http://outspokenhobbit.blogspot.com/2015/04/difference-between-load-and-stress.html
Expectations…again… – Isaac Howard – http://about98percentdone.blogspot.com/2015/04/expectationsagain.html
Facade Design Pattern – Design Patterns in Automation Testing – Anton Angelov – http://automatetheplanet.com/facade-design-pattern/
Getting Started with Performance Testing – the Performance Sherpa Mark Tomlinson Guides the Way – Joe Colantonio – http://www.joecolantonio.com/2015/04/21/getting-started-with-performance-testing-the-performance-sherpa-mark-tomlinson-guides-the-way/

Posted on Sunday, April 19, 2015

Testing Bits – 4/12/15 – 4/18/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 4/12/15 – 4/18/15.

Articles & Blogs

10 Best Practices and Strategies for Test Automation – Mohammad Saad – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/automation-testing-tutorial-7/
A Real(ly questionable) ISTQB Question – Dan Ashby – https://danashby04.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/a-really-questionable-istqb-question/
A trip to Trivandrum – A call for help? – Ajay Balamurugadas – http://enjoytesting.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-trip-to-trivandrum-call-for-help.html
A Very Happy Marriage between Agile and Context-Driven – Ilari Henrik Aegerter – http://www.ilari.com/blog/files/AgileContextDriven.html
Domain Testing and the Limits of Intuition – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2015/04/domain-testing-and-the-limits-of-intuition/
Exploratory Testing Goes Mainstream – Kevin Dunne – http://www.testingexcellence.com/exploratory-testing-goes-mainstream/
Exploratory Testing Misconception – QA Hipster – http://www.qahipster.com/blog/exploratory-testing-misconception

Posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Software QA & Testing Meetup – April 2015 Meetup Scheduled

Attention: Ohio Testers

For our March meeting we had a great interactive learning session where we built out a cucumber framework from scratch. Many thanks to Matthew Eakin for leading the group!

Our Topic for April 28th: Interviewing & Hiring for Software Testing Jobs

How do you hire a good tester? This will be an exchange of hiring techniques: what has worked well and what hasn’t
We can talk about what’s easy to see during an interview and what’s not.
What is your hiring process like?
What types of questions do you ask?
Expectations for those being interviewed?

Posted on Sunday, April 12, 2015

Testing Bits – 4/5/15 – 4/11/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 4/5/15 – 4/11/15

Articles & Blogs

Blunders in Test Automation: An Interview with Dorothy Graham – Josiah Renaudin – http://www.stickyminds.com/interview/blunders-test-automation-interview-dorothy-graham
Consider your time as a training resource (Gracias Paco!) – Jokin Aspiazu – http://jokinaspiazu.blogspot.com/2015/04/consider-your-time-as-training-resource.html
Don’t let anyone hold you back – Rob Lambert – http://thesocialtester.co.uk/dont-let-anyone-hold-you-back/
Getting the Right Tester – Andy Carrington-Chappell – http://www.carrington-chappell.co.uk/2015/04/07/getting-the-right-tester/
How a lone tester can build an efficient test process despite the challenges – Amy Phillips – http://www.testingcircus.com/how-a-lone-tester-can-build-an-efficient-test-process-despite-the-challenges/
How to design load scenario for performance testing? – Shantonu Sarker – http://shantonusarker.blogspot.com/2015/04/design-load-scenario.html

Posted on Sunday, April 5, 2015

Testing Bits – 3/29/15 – 4/4/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 3/29/15 – 4/4/15.

Articles & Blogs

Actually, there ARE Best Practices – Mark Crowther – http://cyreath.blogspot.com/2015/03/actually-there-are-best-practices.html
An expert suggests how to measure software quality – Robin Goldsmith – http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/opinion/An-expert-suggests-how-to-measure-software-quality
Auditing and Software Testing: What’s the Connection? – Sanjay Zalavadia – http://blog.utest.com/2015/03/31/auditing-and-software-testing-whats-the-connection/
Caching Antipatterns – James Pulley – http://www.perfbytes.com/PulleyCacheBlog
Gherkin Grammar – Christian Kram – http://www.testknight.de/gherkin-grammar/
Homework – Making the Best With What You Got… – Keith Klain – http://qualityremarks.com/homework-making-the-best-with-what-you-got/

Posted on Friday, April 3, 2015

Tweet Bits from #STPCon Spring 2015

Here’s another edition of Tweet Bits. This list is for the Software Test Professionals Conference Spring 2015 that was held in San Diego, California from March 30, 2015 – April 2, 2015.

Below are some of the more notable Tweets that I saw from the conference while watching #STPCon on Twitter. I hope you enjoy. If you like these, be sure to check out all the Tweets for yourself.

Thank you to all those that took the time to live Tweet for all of us that could not make it to the conference. They make excellent conference note to come back to later.

April 2

Maaret Pyhäjärvi ‏@maaretp
Fourth test automation challenge: working with mobile testing. #stpcon

Andy Tinkham ‏@andytinkham
OWASP Security Testing Guide: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Testing_Project … #stpcon – @JimSivak